Re: RaQ2 debian-installer and raid-1

[Harald Kapper <hk@kapper.net>]

On Thu, 20 Jan 2005 05:05:07 +0100, Thiemo Seufer
<ica2_ts@csv.ica.uni-stuttgart.de> wrote:

>
>There is no kernel-image-2.4.27-r5k-cobalt source. The mipsel cobalt kernels
>are built from the kernel-patch-2.4.27-mips source package. The 2.4-cobalt
>patch is only for i386 cobalts like RaQ3.

hi
actually I'm not so sure here...
If I do the following:
apt-get source kernel-image-2.4.27-r5k-cobalt
I pretty much get the "kernel-patch-2.4.27-mips-2.4.27-7.040815" in /usr/src :)
(including .dsc and .tar.gz)
implicitely "dpkg-source -x kernel-patch-2.4.27-mips_2.4.27-7.040815-1.dsc" is
done by apt-get then. well I do
cd /usr/src/kernel-patch-2.4.27-mips-2.4.27-7.040815/
and try to "dpkg-buildpackage"
this is where it tells me about the 2.4.27-7 requirement, which I filled in
trying to sole this by apt-getting it form /unstable.
afterwards "make-kpkg clean" during the above buildpackage call complains about
not having "kimagesrc" set and bails out, I tried to set ARCH SUBARCH
KPKG_SUBARCH KPKG_ARCH to mipsel and r5k-cobalt, but still "make-kpkg clean" is
pretty unhappy about it and tells me kimagesrc is probably missing because it
can't determine the arch/subarch...

>> now - my stupid question: how comes the patch is in testing for cobalt, but the
>> source-tree is not yet available - does this make any sense?
>
>kernel-patch-2.4.27-mips Build-Depends on kernel-source-2.4.27. The
>testing migration scripts care about Depends, not Build-Depends.

uhm - I'm a non-guru here - if you could explain this a bit more to me please?
(or send me to rtfm :))

>> and more interesting: is there a workaround for me to build my own kernel
>> anyway?
>
>Use kernel-patch-2.4.27-mips plus the kernel-source-2.4.27 deb from unstable.

that's what I'm doing as described above I hope, but somewhere on the way I
still get stuck with dpkg-buildpackage.

thank you for your support
harald kapper